On Tuesday, passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu were treated to a different kind of in-flight entertainment: a solar eclipse at 35,000 feet. It all started a year ago when an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History realized the flight would coincide almost perfectly with the solar eclipse, a dream come true for amateur and professional astronomers alike. The problem? The flight was scheduled to leave Anchorage 25 minutes too early, and would miss the eclipse, where the moon would block the sun for nearly two minutes. In response, Alaska Airlines decided to change the flight to intercept the solar phenomenon, rerouting it just so that self-styled "eclipse geeks" could have the flight of a lifetime, the airline's blog said. Filled with astronomers, the flight went off without a hitch and the footage of the eclipse from the sky is absolutely stunning. Mike Kentrianakis, solar eclipse project manager for the American Astronomical Society, captured the experience on film, with plenty of excited shouts and cheers included.